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Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne
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Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when at full pelt
It takes a scientific mind to see the grunting hulk of a hippopotamus and wonder whether, given sufficient motivation, such an improbable beast might ever become airborne.
And so to researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, whose painstaking examination of footage of the creatures revealed that when the hefty herbivores reach top speed they do indeed take off.
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